Re: Low-stress useful project

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Richard!

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 04:18:55PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> The Eshell manual, eshell.texi, is less than half complete.  Would
> people who work on Eshell like to work on adding what is missing?
> Maybe some parts can be copied from the Bash manual and then adapted
> to fit Eshell.

With all due respect to everybody, and so on, but the Bash manual, the
last time I looked at it[*], didn't seem to be one of the better manuals
in the GNU system.  It is short on examples, doesn't seem well
organized, and I found it maddeningly difficult to find out about basic
things (how do you write a `while' loop?) a few years back when I was
learning bash.  The bash man page is much more coherent.  I would
suggest NOT using the bash manual as a basis for eshell.texi.

[*] Version 2.5b, 15th July 2002

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Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)